Ivory Coast TV host gets suspended sentence for ‘condoning rape’
Al Jazeera
Yves de M’Bella given a 12-month suspended jail term amid outcry over scene with man using dummy to simulate rape.
A television host in Ivory Coast has been given a 12-month suspended jail term for “condoning rape” after guest on his prime-time show acted out sexual assaults with a dummy. Presenter Yves de M’Bella was also ordered on Wednesday to pay a fine of two million CFA francs ($3,600) and has been barred from leaving Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city. De M’Bella laughingly encouraged his TV guest, a man presented as a former rapist, to use a mannequin to demonstrate how he abused his victims.
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